First the bad news: Unfortunately, designers regularly have to face technical limitations. On the one hand, it is often not known that connection solutions using direct screwing can be implemented reliably in materials with a high carbon fiber content. On the other hand, it is considered to be very difficult. The good news: These assumptions are unfounded, and the facts tell a different story. Both short and long fiber-reinforced materials with carbon fibers are absolutely feasible in terms of joining technology. Two companies that should know – and above all can provide technically valid proof – are the closely associated companies Baier & Michels and LEHVOSS. They effectively eliminate the fear of subjects such as electrochemical corrosion, surface wear during the screwing-in process, creep resistance or joint strength after climate change tests. Even those fears of the most stubborn critics.

Lighter than aluminum and stronger than steel. Impressively stiff and unyielding - even when exposed to extreme heat/cold - and at the same time friendly to any mating partners in tribological applications. Already more than 50 years old and, thanks to tailor-made compounding, always in perfect shape for innovations in terms of performance. This characterizes the carbon fiber, or rather the carbon fibers - because, after all, there is more than one.

In XCF, X stands for Extra. Behind this is the extra carbon fiber technology from the LEHVOSS high-performance compounds product line. With an emphasis on extra: in terms of material properties, it stands for extra stiff, extra strong and extra tough. In terms of customer requirements, it stands for extra-flexible, extra-modifiable and extra-customizable. Provided that one has mastered the entire spectrum of development and compounding: Then nothing stands in the way of improving properties simultaneously, along the three dimensions without sacrificing performance.